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Introducing Lucy Tustian of Paper, Glass, Stitch

Today I'm thrilled to introduce you to Lucy Tustian of Paper, Glass, Stitch fame (and the leading lady in a recent Stampin' Up! YouTube video and guest speaker creator showing the capabilities of the new Project Life & Stampin' Up! collaboration at a recent Stampin' Up! training conference for 360 fellow demonstrators!

Lucy's always been a crafter in some form thanks to an artistic Mum and an engineer Dad! As well as being a Stampin' Up! demonstrator since 2012, she's also an accomplished glass artist, a paper crafter and also dabbles with sewing and crochet having taught herself! She also teaches fabulous card-making classes regularly in Banbury and holds private card-making classes for aspiring paper crafters in their own homes

I especially love Lucy's ability to think outside the box with Stampin' Up! products and use the stamps and accessories in ways that they might not have been intended for ie making rings & necklaces using buttons and flower corsages/brooches out of fabric and felt cut with the Stampin' Up! bigshot dies. I also admire Lucy's cards; mini scrap book albums; scrapbook pages; home decor items based on scrapbook layouts or punch art; boxes and other gift packaging and her jewellery and accessories.

Lucy used the new Project Life/Stampin' Up! series (becoming available from 10th June) including new washi tape & photopolymer stamps to create this awesome one week, day by day, to-do-list decorated peg organiser with matching note pad and pen which can be hung on a noticeboard or shelf-edge or even on your fridge to remind you what jobs you need to do or where you need to be when on each day of the week - shows how versatile Project Life can be!

Pop over to Lucy's blog at Paper, Glass, Stitch to take a closer look at her gorgeous projects and say hi!

A couple of months ago I asked you about increasing interaction on my page & you gave me advice around engagement and asking questions to my customers building up trust. Since doing this I have noticed that my interaction talked about figures have gone up people are engaging more in my posts and we are building up trust which had resulted in a few more sales!

I started to make jewellery as a hobby in 2010 since then i have gathered various skills, which has caused customers at work, friends and family to say "oooh you should sell your creations". I fumbled around with advertising, a single fair and a couple of car boots. I found i wasn't doing very well and started to get frustrated and looked for help. I immediately found Marketing Creatively and since then everything has changed for my business and I! Using the 50 "cardinal rules" (as i call them) and every single piece of information i can suck from your blog, I am starting to expand my reach ten fold, i am finding networking much easier and much more focused, I am now blogging, which to my surprise is a big hit, and i am also planning to do tutorial videos and contact my local newspapers and such to get a bit of coverage. All in all I can't thank you enough. You have been such a great inspiration and help and I know I couldn't have done it without your support, and the support.